Tybee Island Lighthouse Museum

For my parents 50th Anniversary, we took a family trip to Savannah, Georgia and Tybee Island. While there we visited the Tybee Lighthouse Museum Iceland.

The drive along Highway 80 and offers an interesting view of the narrow canals and grassy marshes that make up the region. Sometimes the road was very busy and always windy. We enjoyed views of boats of all sizes and walkways along the banks on private channels.

The Tybee lighthouse has 178 steps that weincreased to take in the view from above. This is even a functional lighthouse, although the means of bulb that is no longer required constant maintenance. The lighthouse keeper houses are now on display.

The entrance is through the gift shop where you can be one of the Tybee Island Light House cats are welcome. It is a white named Michael and a yellow named Miss Kitty. Michael was there and opened up on us. Miss Kitty wanted to be petted. The signs warnthat cats do not always, but be pampered and that the visitor is the caution when approaching the cats used.

The lighthouse is 178 steep steps and circular nature makes it difficult for people who are in the opposite direction, bypassing. Seemed to be waiting on one of the best platforms to happen. The view from each landing offers a different perspective, as you climb, so they are good places to stop anyway.

The view from the top was worth it to get there. Usis a narrow platform that extends to the tip of the lighthouse, where you can get a view of the surroundings. You can see the shore and the channel that makes house light. You can also look beyond the island and see the houses and condominiums to the end of the north.

After climbing the lighthouse, we visited at home Former goalkeeper. Before 1933, the house had light an oil lamp that had to be refueled frequently. This meant the zoo keepers hadwebsite constantly up the stairs and keep the oil light was on. The renovated apartments are available on this website where people lived.

One of the houses is now a cinema and the other has recovered, to see what life could be had for the operator and his family. The apartment is in a period of fixtures furnished and decorated with antique toys and curiosities that might be found there.

The characteristic black and white stripes of the Tybee Light House Iceland were there in the first placein 1916. The black bear at the top of the visible light his house during the day from the sea. In 1965 they changed the color scheme, but was restored in 1999-1916 models, which are the Tybee Island lighthouse to our knowledge.

The light house is closed on Tuesdays, but open the other days of the week. The cost is $ 7 per tour. There are various discounts. Parking is ample and free parking in the museum. You can also park on the road to the parking problems at the beachArea, but you must pay the parking meters there.

The ticket includes the battery museum on the opposite side. I am the only one in my family seemed to be exhibited in the museum is planned for the batteries. It is actually an old fortress designed to protect the island and the flow of enemy attack. I do not think that Georgia has always been used, since most perpetrators was simply to go somewhere else.

Inside the battery, however there are some interesting historical photos of TybeeIceland or Savanna Shores, as it was known before. In the 1920s and earlier Tybee was a playground for people to escape. Before Highway 80, there was a railway line, the playground island. There were large resorts, clubs and places like the carnival on the island. Not much remains of the glory days on the island now.

After visiting the museum, we reached the beach right behind the battery Museum. For lunch we found the local Shriner's Lodge has been selling hot dogs.So, we ate hot dogs and chips on the rear bumper of our Suburban during each swim in his clothes changed.

Grass beach is accessed by a wooden walkway over the marsh. The sand is nice and spacious, with plenty of room even on busy weekends Forth of July when we visited.

more information about the Tybee Island Lighthouse Museum: http://www.tybeelighthouse.org/